18: Retribution
THE GIRL STOOD BY THE CLAW-LEGGED TABLE, hesitant, silent, doubtful, until Gees held out his arms. Then she came to him, quickly.
“Oh, I’m so glad! I thought— in the night— perhaps you’d thought it over and— and found it was all a mistake—”
“May, I shall have to think seriously about spanking you if you dare to think things like that. Three hundred and sixty-four more days to go, too. Thank heaven next year isn’t leap year!”
She laughed. “Let’s go out in the orchard— will you? I’ve got so much to say to you, Mr. Gees. I won’t need a hat— it’s a glorious day!”
“Glorious is right, because you’re in it, May. But”— he followed her out from the room— “you’ll say I’m always complaining, about being Mr. Green yesterday and Mr. Gees to-day. It’s— you’ve got to consider yoursel
